Hosting Info

In the tab Hosting details you can add your hosting info.

• Name: The name you want to use for this hostingaccount so you can recognize it later
• ip or url: here you fill in the url (www.mydomain.com) or the ip (it's in the form of 4 blocks of numbers like fi 204.366.22.45)
• FTP User: You can make a new user with ftp access in your hostingaccount that has privelages to add or change things
• FTP Pass: see above ..the pass that goes with the user
• Database name: The name of the database that all your wordpress sites that you install on this hostingaccount will use
• FTP User: You can make a new user with full access to your database
• FTP Pass: see above ..the pass that goes with the user

I wil make a small video in the next periode to show the steps
If you have troubles mail me at edwin@wpoctopus.com

Add websites:

Your websites that run on Wordpress.

The first step you should make is adding the details of your hosting at the right. If you are looking for a new hostingaccount I have some recommandations below. For WP Octopus to function it needs a few basic things...it needs to know where the site is hosted and has to have access to the database and the site. To do that I suggest you set up a new user in your hostingaccount for ftp access. Second you should make a database if you don't already have one and add a new user to it with full access. Below are the steps how it looks in most hostingaccounts (with a backend called cpanel)

If you build multiple sites I do not recommand to have them all on one hostingaccount esspesially not when you interlink them to gain some backlinks from your own sites. I recommand to spread it as much as you can while still looking at costs. I use hostingaccounts with the abilty to add unlimited domains to it but I try to keep it at 25-30 at 1 account. As most hostingaccounts will cost you around $8 a month it's about $0.25 per month per domain.

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Domainnames...If you didn't knew ...I am dutch and I always try to find the best deals.
If you goto godaddy.com and in the righttop menu select domains->register in bulk you get the best prices even if you register just one domain. A .info domain name is $0.99. If you use a couponcode AMAZON3 it will get you in most cases (unless it's already a sale) 10% off

If you use these steps it will make your total price for a domain $0.99 + 12*$0.25 = $3.99. So you have to make more the $3.99 a year (that is just a lil over 1 cent per site a day) to recoup your investment.